Editor’s Note: Translation from the original French via Google Translate. The original article is available here.
From: Secunews.be
We saw in the first text, the reasons to fight against this illicit trade are many: it deprives the States of customs and tax revenues, it thwarts public health policies, it threatens legitimate businesses and helps finance organized crime often sparking corruption. We will now examine the methods usually employed by traffickers and the means that are used to fight against cigarette smuggling.
Methods traffickers
According to customs, the current methods are becoming more complex to avoid detection: the use of modern communication techniques, sophistication collective means of concealment. Caches are found for example in the transport of wood or in coal transportation from Belarus by train. Traffic by very powerful speedboats equipped with modern radars and radio seems to take place in Europe. The use of the Seaway for sending containers from China is important, even if the criminals regularly change their itineraries and destination ports (Riga port seems like more and more cigarettes from that country) . Seizures of more than 100,000 cigarettes come mainly from Uganda, Poland, Bosnia but also in the UK.
